Not mere opinion

The February 1st Post-Gazette ("Allegheny County remains undecided
about new voting machines") reports that I "told" Election Board
members that Diebold installed uncertified software on voting
machines in California and quotes a Diebold representative as saying
the changes weren't "substantive" and "didn't need certification".

But I was quoting a report issued by the California Secretary
of State--including the part which reads, "Diebold eventually
acknowledged that it had failed to notify the Secretary of
State of its proposed system modifications, and that its failure
to obtain certification for these modifications violated state
law". If Diebold's spokesman doesn't like what I said, perhaps
he should take it up with the state of California--or with his
co-workers.